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    SubjectRe: document ext3 requirements
    On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:08:10AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
    > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
    > > Hmm, so if my dual-boot machine does not shutdown correctly and I boot
    > > accidentally in M$ Win where I use ext2 IFS driver and modify some
    > > stuff on the ext3 drive, after a while reboot to linux and the journal
    > > get re-played ... Mmm ...
    >
    > If the ext2 IFS driver mounts an ext3 file system that needs journal
    > replay, the IFS driver is broken (unless it can replay the journal, of
    > course - I stopped using that driver long ago, being unhappy with it).

    Indeed; that's why there is a INCOMPAT NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag to
    prevent compliant ext2 implementations from mounting an ext3
    filesystem that needs recovery. We've thought about most of these
    issues, almost a decade ago...

    - Ted
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